Answered from Reed Hastings on Hollywood’s Future, Netflix’s Shakeup and Knowing When to Leave · On with Kara Swisher · 2026-10-26
Reed Hastings calls getting into streaming in 2007, two years after YouTube launched, his greatest decision, along with letting Ted Sarandos spend on originals like House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black. The decision he missed was the ad-supported model: just as Android offered a free operating system, Roku built an ad-funded platform for televisions, and Hastings says he did not see that opportunity.
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